I understand your passion and anguish. Yet it reminds me a little bit of every “conservative” congressman’s anguish when their own particular earmark is voted down. There has to be a point where the spending stops.
Democrats know from history that Republicans Always cave. They know that as an article of their faith. We always have caved. They scheme and “negotiate” based on that assumption.
I pray that this time the Republican Congress holds the line. It will not be the end of the Department of Defense. It may encourage more politicians to be more fiscally frugal.
I can apply that word to any platitude to any cause.
"I can appreciate your love you have for your family maica, yet, you must understand I had to attack them."
Please save it.
The reality of what is being done to the military is obscene. You may "pray the Republicans in Congress hold the line" - but that prayer would enforce the exponential explosion of Entitlement spending while punishing the military, and doing such in a way that breaks faith with those who have given so much to this country.
Fine for you to say, but you don't have to pay the price for it.